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History of Allegan and Barry Counties, Michigan
pub. D. W. Ensign & Co., Philadelphia - 1880


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         ALBERT E. BULL
         
         The subject of this biography, by all that can be learned
       from his associates in life, was a man of more than ordinary
       ability; he was emphatically a man of affairs, industrious,
       sagacious, enterprising, and public-spirited. He was born in
       Sheffield, Berkshire Co., Mass., March 4, 1808. Hs father,
       WILLIAM BULL, was of English descent, a Quaker in his reli-
       gious views, and a man of wealth and prominence. He was edu-
       cated for a physician, but the profession was not a congenial
       one, and he became a farmer. ALBERT E. received a collegiate
       education and studied law, but chose the profession of civil
       engineer, and shortly after he attained his majority he went
       to Florida, where he was employed by the government in the
       survey of government lands. In 1832 he came to Michigan and
       located at "Insley's Corners," on Prairie Ronde, Kalamazoo
       Co. Here he was engaged in mercantile pursuits in company
       with a MR. KELLOGG. In the latter part of that year he dis-
       solved partnership with MR. KELLOGG and removed his stock of
       goods to what is now Schoolcraft, then known as the "Island,"
       and prosecuted a successful business in merchandising for
       many years. Sept. 7, 1832, he purchased and received a deed
       of conveyance from COL. LYMAN D. DANIELS for forty acres of
       land, being the south half of the west half of the southeast
       quarter of section 18, in township 4 south, of range 11 west,
       in Kalamazoo County. This land he surveyed and platted as
       "Bull's addition" to the village of Schoolcraft. A large
       portion of this tract of land has substantial buildings
       erected upon it, and constitutes the larger and better 
       portion of the village. Up to the time of his removal to
       Barry County, MR. BULL was closely identified with the de-
       velopment of Schoolcraft and vicinity; his education in
       civil engineering and surveying made his services of great
       value to the people. His reading had been extensive, and 
       his library, consisting of more books than those in the
       possession of any of his neighbors, was a source of dis-
       seminating much knowledge among the early settlers. MR. BULL
       was one of the pioneers of the town of Rutland, where he
       purchased a large tract of land, and where he was extensively
       engaged in agricultural operations up to the time of his death,
       which occurred in March, 1865, at Great Barrington, Mass. He
       is spoken of by those who knew him best as a man of superior
       business capacity, public-spirited in the extreme, and one
       whose sympathy in behalf of the unfortunate and destitute
       was always readily enlisted. HON. H. G. WELLS, of Kalamazoo,
       who knew him intimately, says, "He was a valuable citizen
       and a most useful pioneer." In 1846 he was married to Miss
       LYDIA A. SHAW, of Volina, Cass Co., Mich.  MRS. BULL was
       born in Fairfield Co., Conn., Oct. 24, 1826, and came to
       Michigan with her father's family in 1830. In 1866 MRS.
       BULL was again married, to ALBERT E. BULL, a nephew of
       her first husband. He was a man of great benevolence and
       a prominent member of the Congregational Church. He died
       October, 1878.
       
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